For years, "AI in streaming" meant one thing: recommendations. That era is over. The interesting work has moved backstage, into operations, and it changes how streaming services are actually run. A quick definition, because the word gets abused. Agentic AI is software that doesn't just answer
Most operators don't find out they're being robbed from a security alert. They find out from the CDN bill. Streaming piracy takes tens of billions of dollars out of this industry every year, and the uncomfortable part is how quietly it happens. Nobody breaks anything. Your
European FAST TV closed 2025 at about €1.34bn. Five years before that it was €124m. Most operators look at that number, work out what their share would be, and decide it's too small to bother with. They're right about the share. They're looking
New library-driven channels let media operators run a 24/7 linear stream from existing content, with no encoder and no playout hardware, and a real-time "live now" state that stays correct across every screen. Aviion will preview the next generation of its white-label OTT and
For the past year, this blog has argued that live sports is where every hard problem in streaming shows up at once: latency, scale, piracy, rights enforcement, monetization. This summer, the industry sat the exam. World Cup 2026 in North America was the largest live-streaming event ever attempted, and
Security is the part of an OTT platform nobody wants to talk about until it fails. Then it's the only thing anyone talks about. The failure modes are predictable: a new release shows up on torrent sites within hours, a credential-stuffing attack turns into a churn spike,
Ask a viewer where they watch and the answer is "yes." The same subscriber discovers a show on their phone during a commute, continues on a laptop at lunch, and finishes on the living-room TV. To them, that's one service. Behind the scenes, it'
Streaming was supposed to bury live TV. The pitch was simple: forget schedules, watch what you want, when you want. And for a while, that was enough. People ditched cable, binged entire seasons in a weekend, and swore off commercials forever. Then live TV made its comeback inside the very
Nothing kills a live stream faster than being behind it. Buffering during an old sitcom is annoying; hearing the neighbors cheer a goal 45 seconds before it reaches your screen is a cancellation reason. In our hybrid streaming post we called sub-five-second latency the commercial target and moved
Every year the streaming industry produces a fresh stack of trend reports, and every year they list roughly the same things. So rather than add another neutral list, here's something more useful: the trends we're actually seeing from inside platform development, each with a verdict on
Every OTT operator we talk to asks about AI within the first twenty minutes. Usually in one of two forms: "Can it make our platform feel like Netflix?" or "Is it actually worth the investment for a catalog our size?" Both are fair questions. Having spent